Quotes About Agreement

and Abimelech asked him, “Why have you set apart these seven ewe lambs?”

He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”

So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.

After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

Abraham agreed to Ephronís terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.

And he added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”

Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages.

“Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”

Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between you and me.”

Then Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.

Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.

But if you will not agree to be circumcised, then we will take our sister and go.”

Their offer seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.

But only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us and be one people: if all our men are circumcised as they are.

Will not their livestock, their possessions, and all their animals become ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell among us.”

an oath before the LORD shall be made between the parties to determine whether or not the man has taken his neighborís property. The owner must accept the oath and require no restitution.

And you answered me and said, “What you propose to do is good.”

“Our lives for your lives!” the men agreed. “If you do not report our mission, we will show you kindness and faithfulness when the LORD gives us the land.”

Now in former times in Israel, concerning the redemption or exchange of property, to make any matter legally binding a man would remove his sandal and give it to the other party, and this was a confirmation in Israel.

So the priests agreed that they would not receive money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.

And because this proposal seemed right to all the people, the whole assembly agreed to it.

They agreed to make ships to go to Tarshish, and these were built in Ezion-geber.

This proposal pleased the king and the whole assembly.

Then he had everyone in Jerusalem and Benjamin take a stand in agreement to it. So all the people of Jerusalem carried out the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.